时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(十二月)


英语课

1. A call from President Barack Obama to the House to quickly approve a taxpack without changes already endorsed 1 by the Senate. Some Democrats 2 are denouncing the deal to extend Bush-era tax cuts to all taxpayers 3.


 


2. In Florida, school officials say the wife of a man confronted a school board at gunpoint had been fired. The district hired Rebecca Crowder Duke as a teacher, but he does not pass probation 4. Her husband fatally shot himself.


 


3. The Justice Department is suing BP and eight other companies in the Gulf 5 oil spill, trying to recover billions of dollars. They will be responsible for removal costs and damages.


 


4. A circus act for the Pope. Four acrobats 6 perform shirtless in front of Pope Benedict XVI. None in the audiences cheer. The Pope gave a more measured response.



1 endorsed
vt.& vi.endorse的过去式或过去分词形式v.赞同( endorse的过去式和过去分词 );在(尤指支票的)背面签字;在(文件的)背面写评论;在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品
  • The committee endorsed an initiative by the chairman to enter discussion about a possible merger. 委员会通过了主席提出的新方案,开始就可能进行的并购进行讨论。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The government has broadly endorsed a research paper proposing new educational targets for 14-year-olds. 政府基本上支持建议对14 岁少年实行新教育目标的研究报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 democrats
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 taxpayers
纳税人,纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )
  • Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
  • She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
4 probation
n.缓刑(期),(以观后效的)察看;试用(期)
  • The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱,而且将他缓刑察看一年。
  • His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后,他的工资增加了800元。
5 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
6 acrobats
n.杂技演员( acrobat的名词复数 );立场观点善变的人,主张、政见等变化无常的人
  • I was always fascinated by the acrobats at the circus. 我总是着迷于马戏团里的杂技演员。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The acrobats' performance drew forth applause from the audience. 杂技演员的表演博得了观众的掌声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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address-content independence
air-slake
albus tumor
alternansucrases
American green toad
amygdala
antipop
arkanite (arcanite)
Benzindamind
benzylene
brass band
bus circuit
cable trough conveyor
cammacks
caninus
Capanema, Sa.do
cereal corp
co operative agricultural society
color subcarrier oscillator
consarning
cotics
covering sickness
cuspidoside
Customer Information Control System for Virtual Storage
cut out gear
CW (circulating water)
emeny currency
epitaxial diffused-mesa transistor
ferromagnetic thin film
field divider
flow cytophotometry
frondosa Butea
gastrointestinal systems
go the length of
Ha Tinh, Tinh
HCSF
heat-shock
hepatic dissociation jaundice
hit on
Honnef
hydroacoustic bearing indicator
impact type insole stapling machine
implicit order
invested in
Joint Common Risks Agreement
Ken, Loch
Kiil dialyser
leptogomphus sauteri formosanus
ligamenta thyreoarytaenoideum inferius
lighting load
logarithm common
longitudinal slitter
mangoed
mathfile
Mellapak packing
methyleholanthrene
methylene radicals
monopleural type
nomenclaturals
notice money
nourishing yin for tranquillization
nuclearpropelled
obscene libels
ocupy
opposing strain
optical scan conversion
orthochromatic filter
partial racemization
platinic bromide
postmodification
pressure at rest
private airline
Pulasari, Gunung
pulmonary function analyzer
race prejudice
rca 1802
ropeladder
RRID
screw-driving machine
select finger
self-propelled gun
semi-state
semiaxis of hyperbola
sodium xanthonate
special decision budget
spooning
spread spectrum code
standard stop
State General Administration of Exchange Control
straighteneth
Sumicidine
supereon
swear on the Book
tabetic osteoarthropathy
taraval
tariff ex-heading
throaty
undreamt of
unreasoningly
vadge
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